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Author of "Widor" John R. Near, talks us through the discovery and research into one of France's most distinguished musicians

Carolyn Shuster Fournier discusses César Franck's organ pedagogy.

OHS Press announces the publication of Camille Saint-Saëns: Organist-Composer, by Rollin Smith ($49.99 plus shipping).  The book provides a biographical view of Saint-Saëns as organist and composer, including chapters on the construction and settings of instruments he played (harmonium, Aeolian organ, and Cavaillé-Coll organs, among others). Within the eleven appendices are essays by and about Saint-Saëns, his recordings, specifications of organs that he played, and a thematic catalog of his works for harmonium and organ. 

The Leupold Foundation announces a new book, Pioneers in American Organ Music 1860–1920, The New England Classicists (LE300003, $69), by Barbara Owen. The volume is a comprehensive discussion of the beginning of classical organ music in the United States with biographies of nine of the first and most prominent American composers for the organ: John Knowles Paine, Dudley Buck, W. Eugene Thayer, George E. Whiting, Samuel B. Whitney, W. Arthur Foote, George W. Chadwick, Horatio W. Parker, and Henry M. Dunham.

Stephen Pinel reviews Barbara Owen's book, Pioneers in American Music, 1860−1920, The New England Classicists, from Leupold Editions.